Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sanday's report, financed by a $61,576 grant from the U.S. Office of Education, is based on her 1971 examination of the records of more than 2,000 children (45% black, 55% white) who had just completed the ninth grade in Pittsburgh public schools. After plotting the changes in the students' IQ scores from 1962-70 as they moved through the largely segregated schools, she noted a significant trend. The scores of blacks in schools with mostly black pupils worsened steadily between kindergarten and eighth grade; the scores of whites in predominantly white schools, in addition...
...what rationing would be like. Every driver over 18 would get an allotment of coupons every three months, probably at a local post office. Drivers in rural - '- areas would get 41-49 gal. a | month. Motorists in large cities that have relatively poor public transportation, including Miami, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., would receive roughly 90% of the rural allotment. In big cities that have good transit facilities, including New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, drivers would get 80% of the rural ration...
...When the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation closed its asbestos insulation plant in Tyler, Texas, two years ago, it did an unusually thorough job of cleaning up after itself. Some 60 workers spent a week scraping asbestos waste from machinery and depositing it in a nearby dump. Then another crew took over. Ceilings and walls were steam cleaned. Every piece of equipment in sight was scrubbed down; some machinery was disassembled and shipped to P.C.C.'s home office in Pittsburgh. What was left was cut up and buried. When the crew finished, all that remained of the plant were two dilapidated...
...televised scene is both vivid and startling. Registering at a Manhattan hotel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TV Critic Win Fanning is handed an envelope. He opens it and finds two $10 bills. The money-for "taxis and miscellaneous" -comes from CBS, which regularly flies TV reporters to New York to screen new network shows, paying their expenses and tossing in some mad money besides. Even more startling, the scene was broadcast this week by CBS on 60 Minutes, as part of a critical story about press junkets financed by corporations in hopes of favorable coverage...
...adjustment is less devastating but nonetheless disagreeable for residents of communities-including Pittsburgh, Lafayette, Ind., and Billings, Mont.-that have lost much of their scheduled air service. It is also tough for businessmen who cannot get a seat on tightly booked New York-to-Chica-go or Los Angeles-to-Washington flights, and for weekend skiers unexpectedly stranded on Sunday evenings at Denver's Stapleton Airport...